This name was proposed[371] primarily for a large ovoid petrified bud composed of rolled Cyclopteroid leaves from Permian rocks in the Ural Mountains, which had been previously described by more than one writer under different names and regarded as a young shoot of a Palm or other Monocotyledon. Eichwald[372], who published good drawings, called the fossil _Noeggerathia Goepperti_. Saporta connected with this species some leaf-impressions from the Permian of Bohemia described by Goeppert[373] as _Noeggerathia cyclopteroides_: in his family Dolerophylleae[374] the French author included other leaves which are probably not closely related to the type-species, _Dolerophyllum Goepperti_. The Dolerophylleae are spoken of by Saporta and Marion[375] as Progymnosperms. Before the publication of Saporta’s note Grand’Eury had instituted the genus _Doleropteris_[376] and the family Doleropteroideae; in the former he included several forms of leaves agreeing generally with Goeppert’s _Noeggerathia cyclopteroides_. Zeiller[377] adopts Grand’Eury’s designation for the Russian fossil in preference to _Dolerophyllum_, a choice justified by considerations of priority; but the latter name is retained in this account as it was assigned by Saporta to the specimen of greatest botanical interest, namely _Dolerophyllum Goepperti_, and because it does not suggest affinity to Ferns. _Dolerophyllum Goepperti_ (Eichwald). The type-species is from the Zechstein of Orenburg in the Urals and no specimens having precisely the same structure have been found elsewhere. Eichwald assigned it, with leaf-impressions of various kinds, to the Noeggerathieae and named it _Noeggerathia Goepperti_: it had previously been described by Kutorga[378] as _Aroides crassispatha_ and Unger[379] included it among the Palms as _Palaeospathe aroidea_. The species has been described also by Saporta and Marion and by Renault[380]. The following account is based on sections cut from a specimen in the British Museum[381] which, though assigned on the label (within a query) to France and named _Dolerophyllum Berthieri_, is undoubtedly Eichwald’s species from East Russia. [Illustration: Fig. 430. _Dolerophyllum Goepperti_. Bud in surface-view, A; in longitudinal section, B, C; in transverse section, D. (British Museum; A, ⅔ nat. size.)]